I've got one of the gutter vacs from here :
http://www.guttercleaningsystems.co.uk/3000watt.html
I've had it a few months and done roughly 18 jobs with it. Mostly standard 3 bed house type jobs, a few bigger ones.
Managed to snag a nice commercial job the other week on an arts centre with big long and wide gutters. The gutters were absolutely full up with moss covered thick mud.
Everything was going fine and the gutter vac was going nicely until about halfway through the job when the filter decided to (not sure how to describe it) but it would be sucked around the cage frame underneath the motors (as if it was blocked).
When I took the motors off the filter was as you would expect totally soaked/covered in mud, I just washed it off (as I had done at times before) and put it back in. It worked again for maybe a minute but then started to suck around the cage again, so no suction was getting to the hose/poles.
Basically I had to finish off the rest of the job with ladders which took ages, when I got home I washed and dried out the filter but when I took it out to use on a couple of jobs last week it was fine for the front of a house but then once you started to suck up water/mud the filter sucks itself to the frame again and water gets inside the filter.
So anyway, I phoned up the guy (who is by the way very helpful and a nice chap) and he said when he uses his, he doesn't bother with the filter takes off the frame underneath (3 screws) and where the hole is puts a small circular bit of foam in the hole and re-screws the frame over this (can take photo if no-one knows what I mean).
So he kindly sent me a few of these foam pieces and I used it on a job the other day, no problems at all. My only concern is, isn't this going to wreck the vacuum cleaner?
I mean all of the under frame was covered in mud and totally soaked with water. As was the foam piece, which was also soaked/covered in moss & mud (and a bit torn)
http://www.guttercleaningsystems.co.uk/3000watt.html
I've had it a few months and done roughly 18 jobs with it. Mostly standard 3 bed house type jobs, a few bigger ones.
Managed to snag a nice commercial job the other week on an arts centre with big long and wide gutters. The gutters were absolutely full up with moss covered thick mud.
Everything was going fine and the gutter vac was going nicely until about halfway through the job when the filter decided to (not sure how to describe it) but it would be sucked around the cage frame underneath the motors (as if it was blocked).
When I took the motors off the filter was as you would expect totally soaked/covered in mud, I just washed it off (as I had done at times before) and put it back in. It worked again for maybe a minute but then started to suck around the cage again, so no suction was getting to the hose/poles.
Basically I had to finish off the rest of the job with ladders which took ages, when I got home I washed and dried out the filter but when I took it out to use on a couple of jobs last week it was fine for the front of a house but then once you started to suck up water/mud the filter sucks itself to the frame again and water gets inside the filter.
So anyway, I phoned up the guy (who is by the way very helpful and a nice chap) and he said when he uses his, he doesn't bother with the filter takes off the frame underneath (3 screws) and where the hole is puts a small circular bit of foam in the hole and re-screws the frame over this (can take photo if no-one knows what I mean).
So he kindly sent me a few of these foam pieces and I used it on a job the other day, no problems at all. My only concern is, isn't this going to wreck the vacuum cleaner?
I mean all of the under frame was covered in mud and totally soaked with water. As was the foam piece, which was also soaked/covered in moss & mud (and a bit torn)